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2.44
Numsgil:
The program now is supposed to remember the last settings you used when you exited the program.
See, before I'd do something, test it, exit the program, change the code, go back in, and have to reset all the old settings I was testing.
This way it's supposed to remember what you were running last time you ran the program. Obviously there are some issues however.
Botsareus:
Ah, cool.
Griz:
scout griz retuning from recon ...
my report:
ver 2.44
reloaded it ... started it and it immediately froze the program.
splash screen still in place. nothing happens at all ... I have zero control.
any click I make on anything results in the default windoze noise for an error.
takes ctrl-shift-del and aborting the program from the task panel to get my 'puter back.
ok.
copied the defalut.set and renamed it lastexit.set.
this time it fired up.
loaded in the Alga_Minimalis and Num's new Animal_Minimalis for 2.4.
noticed that gravity says zero ... however ...
if one clicks on the advanced button under the physics tab ...
one will find the Y-axis gravity set to 3. reset it to zero and saved the settings.
noticed the default fliud was set to thin and default solid set to teflon.
I didn't change anything else .. and saved the settings as 2.44start. set so I can get it back. ;)
onward.
starts off ok ... some of the animals eat some of the alga ...
although they are moving very quickly ... way too fast to make it interesting.
on the first run I only had 5 veggies at start and forgot to autofeed them and they
got eaten up quickly ... but no more appeared. there was no repopulation ...
even tho the settings should have kept limited them to 25 and repopulated under 10.
nope. didn't happen.
restart ... this time with 30 alga .... the animals fly about quickly ...
bump into an agla on occasion but none eats anything and no bot ever
changes energy ... no gain, no loss ... no interaction whatsoever other than
speeding around and bumbing into one another or veggies now and then.
I did a number of restarts ... same deal.
altered the fluid once to thick ... to see if the bots would slow up ...
well I guess they kinda, sorta did but ...
I got strange ghosted images of the bots ... as if I was seeing double ...
which happens to me now and then even in the 'real world' but then ...
you young bucks wouldn't know about that yet ...
[btw .. you should hope you ever get as old as me to have such problems.] ;)
so I changed it back to thin and the display returned to 'normal'. [ahem]
so ... no interactions between animals and agla.
the alga slowly reproduce and are not limited to 25 as set.
still have 5 animals that are not gaining or losing any energy ...
and at around 50 alga ... I get a visit from my old friend ...
runtime error 6.
we know each other well.
no indtroduction neccessary.
so that's it.
program shuts down ... no error.sim written.
runtime error6, I know him well enough to call him RT6 ...
and I sit down for a cup of tea and to shoot the .... uh ... breeze.
btw ... my computer barely fuctions now ... just draaaaaggggging along ...
as I haven't yet rebooted after this little encouter.
seems that is what I have to do to free up something or other after these
runtime errors.
end of report.
~griz~ over and out.
Griz:
ok
2.44 again.
alga and Num's new animal ...
not much going on as the animals seem to far away to see the veggies.
but the veggies are gaining energy and once they hit about 6000 they reproduce.
this continues and at some point an animal 'see's one of them and starts to feed.
this seems to actually stimulate the alga into reproducing rapidly ...
AND they move ... as fast as the animal ...
as if they have bred with them and taken on their movement gene ...
even if I have 'blocked' checked.
soon the screen is filled with alga and the veggie limit just does not contain them ...
they just overpopulate ...
I even reduced the Veggie Energy from 30 to 1 ... but it didn't seem to help.
attaching that set ... (2.44bstart.set]
which does set the Y-axis gravity to zero and Veggie Energy/cycle to 3.
note: it uses Alga_Minimalis.txt and Animal_Minimalis2.4.txt ...
[that is what I have named Num's animal] ...
so you'll have to delete the species and add your own ...
or alter your robot's name or edit this 2.44bstart.set
well ... you guys may know this ... but newbies don't always ...
I know I didn't and nobody told me so maybe this will be of help to someone.
I've altered it so it should find your robot folder as long as it is in
the DarwinbotsII folder.
well ... I get an error ... saying I can't upload this type of file.
so renamed it 2.44bstart.txt ...
we will see.
~griz~
Botsareus:
--- Quote ---... I got strange ghosted images of the bots ... as if I was seeing double ...
--- End quote ---
Welcome to the pure evil Vb ran out of memory bug. Solutions = 0 (ok 1, simplify the porgram) But Num claims its a fixable memory leak so ... c++ it is. (although stayed tooned for a more or less working 2.37 I hope)
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